well, here are my first thoughts about BST.
Yesterday i played with Blend's BST, we leveled up pretty fast. Our duo of BST was doing a very good job in warrens (past lvl 15 without PL).
about the BST by himself :
H2H's skill is good. If you use a Ulak (common loot from newbie mobs, 3/15 i think), it becomes deadly, i don't imagine with a better weapon... Other skills, like 1HB or 2HB arent viable at that level.
kick works Ok. Slam is fine too.
At that level, i didnt paid attention to skill caps. i saw defense/h2h/dw raising, i don't remember any offense. 1HB raised too when i placed a mace in the off hand.
about the pet :
lvl 9 pet is perfect, used at damage dealer. A bit useless as tank.
lvl 15 pet gets the first proc spell that does 62 damages. It has a lots of HP and melees decently, and is lvl 16.
Obviously, when you ding 15, this pet is overpowered. Tho, like on live, BST gets their spells all the 7 lvl only, so you ll have that pet till 22. At that level, he isnt as overpowered. At lvl 20, it was still able to handle white cons mobs alone with only a few (89 hp) healings, which is in line with magician pets (that are a bit better perhaps, could be interesting to make mag/bst pet duel to see that).
I think i should report that my pet used a 1H rapier or a 2H staff when i gave it one, and was using it better than his bite skill (wolf). On live, BST pets were warriors (when i was playing at least), and were intended to use H2H as melee skill, so players were giving them weapons to make them use 1HB, 1HS or 1HP instead of H2H, they were doing (much) more damages that way. This has been nerfed by Verant so BST pets coudlnt use weapons anymore...
62 damages by proc seems a lot at lvl 15 (even at 20 in fact), it will raise by 10 for each new proc (if its like on live), and gain a 2s stun near the last levels. Its quite progressive, but not proportionnal to the mobs. I can then imagine that the class will become harder to play with the levels, like magician was. I enjoyed this, the difficulty of the game makes it being fun and its a good challenge to balance all this.
lvl 1 to 20 conclusion :
BST pets shouldnt be allowed to use weapons, nor other equipment. They should be seen as animals (BEASTlord) and not like summon beings able to use gear. Other points like skill caps will be tested next time.
I ll post my next impressions after my next game session!
L8r, Decimooss.
Yesterday i played with Blend's BST, we leveled up pretty fast. Our duo of BST was doing a very good job in warrens (past lvl 15 without PL).
about the BST by himself :
H2H's skill is good. If you use a Ulak (common loot from newbie mobs, 3/15 i think), it becomes deadly, i don't imagine with a better weapon... Other skills, like 1HB or 2HB arent viable at that level.
kick works Ok. Slam is fine too.
At that level, i didnt paid attention to skill caps. i saw defense/h2h/dw raising, i don't remember any offense. 1HB raised too when i placed a mace in the off hand.
about the pet :
lvl 9 pet is perfect, used at damage dealer. A bit useless as tank.
lvl 15 pet gets the first proc spell that does 62 damages. It has a lots of HP and melees decently, and is lvl 16.
Obviously, when you ding 15, this pet is overpowered. Tho, like on live, BST gets their spells all the 7 lvl only, so you ll have that pet till 22. At that level, he isnt as overpowered. At lvl 20, it was still able to handle white cons mobs alone with only a few (89 hp) healings, which is in line with magician pets (that are a bit better perhaps, could be interesting to make mag/bst pet duel to see that).
I think i should report that my pet used a 1H rapier or a 2H staff when i gave it one, and was using it better than his bite skill (wolf). On live, BST pets were warriors (when i was playing at least), and were intended to use H2H as melee skill, so players were giving them weapons to make them use 1HB, 1HS or 1HP instead of H2H, they were doing (much) more damages that way. This has been nerfed by Verant so BST pets coudlnt use weapons anymore...
62 damages by proc seems a lot at lvl 15 (even at 20 in fact), it will raise by 10 for each new proc (if its like on live), and gain a 2s stun near the last levels. Its quite progressive, but not proportionnal to the mobs. I can then imagine that the class will become harder to play with the levels, like magician was. I enjoyed this, the difficulty of the game makes it being fun and its a good challenge to balance all this.
lvl 1 to 20 conclusion :
BST pets shouldnt be allowed to use weapons, nor other equipment. They should be seen as animals (BEASTlord) and not like summon beings able to use gear. Other points like skill caps will be tested next time.
I ll post my next impressions after my next game session!
L8r, Decimooss.
